Quotesby GlyphMichael Kratsios quotes on AI, with sources
Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy · 11 quotes · latest February 2026
- As the Trump Administration has now said many times: We totally reject global governance of AI. We believe AI adoption cannot lead to a brighter future if it is subject to bureaucracies and centralized control.
- Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations.
- Focusing AI policy on safety and speculative risks, however, rather than concrete opportunities, inhibits a competitive ecosystem, entrenches incumbents, and isolates developing countries from full participation in the AI economy.
- I believe that if we embrace AI and exercise its power well, it will advance human flourishing and drive unprecedented prosperity.
- We have moved from gathering to talk about AI safety to calling for AI action, and now we are here to consider AI impact.
- Competitor nations may be following American innovations quickly, but they are still only following.
- Indeed, the best open-source and open-weight models may become industry standard setters.
- It believes that the broad overregulation of AI incentivizes centralization and censorship.
- The race to lead the building of the future with wisdom and responsibility has no finish line.
- The true technological and new industrial revolution we look forward to today is not the frontier AI systems themselves, but what our peoples will do with them.
- America’s AI Action Plan charts a decisive course to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence.
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Topics: Regulation, Compute, Safety, Economics, Open source, Platform shift